by Paul Preston · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422652045
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«Franco, caudillo de España» is the historical biography by Paul Preston, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (1045 pages, in Spanish).
Preston reconstructs the life of Francisco Franco, from his military training and his role in the Civil War to the end of the dictatorship in 1975, and analyses the repression, the relationship with Hitler and Mussolini, the autarky and the later developmentalism, contrasting the idealised image of the Caudillo with abundant historical documentation.
The original title is «Franco a Biography» (1993); the Spanish translation is by Teresa Camprodón and Diana Falcón.
For readers of contemporary Spanish history and political biographies who want to delve into the figure of Franco and his regime.
Sir Paul Preston CBE is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Francisco Franco, and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.
